Combined shears and cigar-tip cutter.



A. L. TOLMAN.

COMBINED SHEARS AND CIGAR TIP CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1a, 1908.

909,347. 7 Patented Jan.12,1909.

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ABRAHAM L. TOLMAN, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED SHEARS AND CIGAR-TIP CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 18, 1908.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Serial No. 153,589.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM L. ToLMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Combined Shears and Cigar-Tip Cutter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined shears and cigar tip cutter.

The object of the invention is to provide an article of this character that shall be exceedingly simple and cheap of construction, efficient and durable in use, and capable, in a novel manner, of smoothly severing a long or short length of a cigar tip or of operating with equal facility upon a large or a small cigar.

With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of theinvention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a combined shears and cigar tip cutter, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the implement showing the same open or in operative position with a cigar tip (indicated by dotted lines) disposed mom of the tip receiving orifices. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the article. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 33, Fig. 1, and looking in the direction of the arrow thereon.

The article consists of two pivotally connected blades 1 and 2, mounted to work in parallel planes and provided with the usual thumb and finger loops 3 and 4:. In order to construct the article as cheaply as possible and to simplify and facilitate its manufacture, the blades are stamped from sheet metal of substantially uniform thickness throughout.

At a point intermediate of the length of each blade, and in rear of the connecting pivot 5, there is provided an inward beveled cigar tip receiving orifice 6, and these two orifices register when the blades are closed. The stock of each of the blades at the point where the orifice is located must, owing to the size of the latter, be widened and this widened portion is on the inner edge of each blade and is curvilinear and beveled to an edge to provide an approximately semi-circular knife 7, the two knives thus provided being so disposed that each will completely traverse the tip receiving orifice of the other blade. As the disposition of the knives will throw the axes of the orifices to one side of the holding pivot 5, and also to the longitudinal axes of the blades, as seen by the dot and dash line AB shown in Fig. 2, the cutting edges of the knives will be caused to describe a path eccentric to the walls of the orifices, and thereby secure a shear cut, that will be of the highest efficiency to effect the severing of a tip without crushing or splittin the tobacco adjacent thereto.

in order to adapt the article to cut the tips from large or small cigars and also to vary the lengths of the severed parts, the two orifices are of different sizes, a sufficient difference in their diameters being observed to attain the objects sought.

As a matter of further and specific improvement, there is provided means whereby to limit the inward movement of the blades relatively to each other, and also to maintain the orifices in register when the blades are closed. This means comprises a pin or stud 8, carried in this instance by the blade 2, adjacent to its 100 and being designed to engage with the bee portion of the knife of the blade 1.

The outer extremities of the blades are formed into shear members 9, which may be employed for manicuring or other purposes, and which further materially add to the utility of the article.

The improvements herein defined while simple in character, will be found thoroughly efficient for the purposes designed and will, in a practical and ready manner, attain the objects sought.

1 claim 1. A cigar tip cutter comprising a pair of pivotally connected blades mounted to work in parallel planes and each having a cigar ti -receiving orifice, the inner edge of each blade being curved and sharpened to constitute a knife movable relative to the opening in the other blade to produce a shearing action upon a tip inserted into the opening.

2. A cigar tip cutter comprising a pair of pivotally-connected blades, each of which is provided intermediate its ends and on its inner edge with a curvilinear extension which constitutes a knife, each of the blades being provided with a cigar tip receiving orifice that passes through a portion of the extension.

the orifices relatively to the longitudinal axes of the blades being such as to cause the edges l of the knives to describe a path eccentric to the walls of the orifices, thereby to secure a shear cut.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 15 as my own, I have hereto afiixed Iny signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM L. TOLMAN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. LOMBARD, FRANK I. WILsON. 

